April 2021

If you're like me, you may have enhanced your friends' enjoyment of space adventure movies by explaining at length and in fascinating detail why the crowded asteroid belt backgrounds that appear in so many of these movies are implausible…

You've probably heard of the Asteroid Belt, that planetary cemetery between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, where many space rocks revolve around the Sun. Asteroids formed early in the development of the solar system, when…